[split] Phalanx warfare: use of the spear

[JaM]

yes, it was a low blow, and maybe i could counter differently, but i didnt. I could just post the usual thing, like for example facts that ancient or any historical pictures cannot be taken too seriously, as they are not portraying reality but idealized situations, while Ancient painters have no issue painting human anatomy in very weird and unrealistic manner.. you can find all kind of strange stuff, like Hoplite holding his spear overarm, yet his spear is going not in front, but behind his head on the side where he would have a shield.. or for example Medieval painters that painted knights fighting each other with swords and cutting clean into their helmets which is pretty much impossible to do (you can bend it, but you wont cut into it.)

So that could be written, yes, but i posted that picture instead, because i remembered an similar argument ended with that exact picture..